- Before Big Science
- Mary Jo Nye
- Mary Jo Nye traces the social and intellectual history of the physical sciences from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Second World War, examining the sweeping transformation of scientific institutions and professions during the period and the groundbreaking experiments that fueled that change, from the earliest investigations of molecular chemistry and field dynamics to the revolutionary breakthroughs of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and nuclear science.
- Paperback 1999
- Distilling Knowledge
- Bruce T. Moran
- This book suggests that scientific revolution may wear a different appearance in different cultural contexts. The metaphor of the Scientific Revolution, Moran argues, can be expanded to make sense of alchemy and other so-called pseudo-sciences--by including a new framework in which "process can count as an object, in which making leads to learning, and in which the messiness of conflict leads to discernment." Seen on its own terms, alchemy can stand within the bounds of demonstrative science.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Equilibrium in Solutions and Surface and Colloid Chemistry
- George Scatchard
- Hardcover 1975
- For the Love of Enzymes
- Arthur Kornberg
- Kornberg describes his successive research problems, the challenges they presented, and the ultimate accomplishments that resulted, he provides us with a primer in the strategies needed to do scientific work of great significance. This book will challenge students of biology and chemistry at all levels who want to do important work rather than simply follow popular trends. It will also delight and inform readers who wish to understand how "real" science is done, and to learn of the values that guide one of our greatest researchers.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991
- A History of Chemistry
- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Isabelle Stengers
- The authors of this history of chemistry--respected, prolific scholars in history and philosophy of science--have distilled their knowledge into an accessible work, free of jargon. They have written a book deeply enthusiastic about the conceptual, experimental, and technological complexities and challenges with which chemists have grappled over many centuries.
- Hardcover 1996
- A History of Molecular Biology
- Michel Morange
- Matthew Cobb, Translator
- This book offers a concise account for a general readership of the history of molecular biology. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- On the Surface of Things
- Felice Frankel
- George M. Whitesides
- Using innovative photographic technology, Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
- Paperback 2008
- The Refrigerator and the Universe
- Martin Goldstein
- Inge F. Goldstein
- This book explains the laws of thermodynamics for science buffs and neophytes alike. The authors begin with a lively presentation of the historical development of thermodynamics and then show how the laws follow from the atomic theory of matter. The authors then give examples of the laws applicability to such diverse phenomena as the radiation of light from hot bodies, the formation of diamonds from graphite, how the blood carries oxygen, and the history of the earth.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Sir Humphry Davy's Published Works
- June Z. Fullmer
- Davy was a leading and controversial member of the international scientific community. His publications received all the publicity available to an early nineteenth-century scholar. For that reason the history of his publications is of interest not only for what it reveals of Davy but for what it tells about the fate of scientific news during this period. This annotated bibliography lists Davy's published writings that appeared during his lifetime and posthumously.
- Hardcover 1969
- A Skeptical Biochemist
- Joseph Fruton
- An eminent pioneer of modern protein chemistry looks back on six decades in biochemical research and education to advance stimulating thoughts about science. Joseph Fruton brings his own skeptical vision to bear on how chemistry and biology interact to describe living systems.
- Hardcover 1992
- A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900
- Edited by Henry M. Leicester
- Edited by Herbert S. Klickstein
- Hardcover
- A Source Book in Chemistry, 1900-1950
- Henry M. Leicester, Editor
- The Source Book serves as an introduction to present-day chemistry and can also be used as supplementary reading in general chemistry courses, since, in many instances, the papers explain the circumstances under which a particular discovery was made--information that is customarily lacking in textbooks. Although the selections are classified into the usual branches of the science, it will be apparent to the reader how the discoveries in any one branch were taken up and incorporated into others.
- Hardcover 1968